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Gate Research: Long-Term Holder Rotation Drives the Downturn | 1inch Launches New Aqua Protocol

2025-11-18 03:59:45 UTC 10441 Read

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* Market Commentary: Over the past 24 hours, Bitcoin broke its brief stabilization and saw another high-volume decline, bringing its 7-day drop to 14.2%. Ethereum fell below the key $3,000 support for the first time, with several well-known traders’ high-leverage positions being liquidated and triggering forced ETH sell-offs, further amplifying volatility. Key focus is Friday’s jobs report—strong data could delay rate cuts and further suppress a crypto rebound. Altcoins broadly trended lower.
* Trending Tokens: The migration from ai16z to ELIZAOS has been completed on major exchanges, enabling seamless cross-chain transfers via Chainlink’s CCIP and pushing ELIZAOS up 18% in 24 hours. Dusk recently announced partnerships with Chainlink and the Dutch securities exchange NPEX, driving a 19.25% gain in 24 hours. ICP’s rise was mainly driven by a technical rebound, breaking out of a falling wedge pattern with easing sell pressure.
* Alpha Insights: The current market pullback is largely driven by rotation among long-term holders, with early holders selling to institutions that also tend to hold for the long run. 1inch launched its new liquidity protocol, Aqua, enabling a single wallet’s assets to be utilized by multiple DeFi strategies simultaneously—addressing long-standing liquidity fragmentation in DeFi. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board purchased $80 million worth of MSTR, reinforcing the trend of “large institutions = stable inflows.”

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